Hello my friends!
I thought I'd show you guys the fruits of my Delightful Autumnal Harvest! (Poor Waira has been waiting long enough.):
For Order's sake, I'll start at airiest, going to densest.
The Fast Amnesia came down on day 68 after sprouting...
An inhalation after opening the jar has me taking in a smell that seems... disinfected and sweet. The "disinfected" part is strange. Maybe "clinical"? Medical? I know the smell but I can't place it. And it's also sugary sweet.
Like I said, these are the airiest buds. They are also very sticky...
But in a bowl with flame the inhale is very tasty- sweet fruity and a little sour like a citrus taste. The exhale is burny like pepper and some spice or another. I like the taste of the exhale, but have to remember not to exhale through the nose as well since it is uncomfortable. That's sad because the exhale through the nostrils is part of the enjoyment of smoking weed. Having the smoothness permeate your whole head. Oh well.
But the High is great! Uplifting? Probably. Energizing? Not so much. It is a tool for Focus, I'd say, if I was asked to describe the benefits of this strain. I've explained it before in this thread somewhere when I first tried her. It's like you're just zeroed in on the task at hand, whether that be listening to music, typing in a forum, chopping firewood, or the best part- having sex. Sex while high on this herb is AWESOME!! Absolute dedication and acceptance. My zipper's near bursting just thinking about it...
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The next in order of tight-buddedness is the Easy Ryder taken down 68 days after sprouting. This time my ER has me a little upset. The other ERs I've grown had nice tight nuggets. The weed is great, but these buds are airy. Less mass than I would have expected.
All these new buds are in the beginning process of curing and the smells are constantly changing. Right now this jar smells earthy and sweet with coffee brewing in the background. But break a bud apart and it's slightly lemony and very fuely. Fresh out of the grinder the fuel smell is even more pronounced.
After a good long cure the fuel smell will go away and it will smell very, very lemony and earthy. The taste is the same. I've praised this herb enough over time, so I won't go on. It's one of my absolute favorites and I love it. But that's just me and you are you and so on and so forth...
I call it my Philosopher's Bud. I like what it does to for my thought processes while giving my brain the impression that I don't really need legs, so why bother standing on them when it's cozy to just sit or lay back and contemplate the wholesome goodness of the singularity in the center of every thing.
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Here's fruits from my Prize Winning Sweet Afgani Delicious, taken down 77 days after sprouting.
You're smelling a clay pot full of freshly picked purple grapes with one dark orange orange on the side. Very sweet. Very grape. Just a hint of orange peels. Slightly loamy, that's why the clay pot. The smell causes an involuntary smile to form on your face.
We've left the airy buds in the cabinet and are now dealing with some nice tight nugs. The kind you slice with a knife. Here's where things take a strange twist. Sitting here as I type this I'm cutting up one of these buds with my bud scissors, grinding me some for my little ready-use stash, and the smell is bewildering. Grapes and just a hint of oily fuel is what I have been used to. But now.. damn! Grapes and something smokey. Like when you smell freshly smoked meat. I don't know if it's elm, or beach or what. But it's there and strangely enough, it harmonizes awesomely with the grape smell and it's so cool!
The taste is fruity and sweet when smoked. Very tasty! The exhale is peppery or spicy but not as disturbing as the FA. It's more like exhaling some smooth hash. Quite pleasant.
I smoke this sparingly in the evening after dinner. This stuff gives me the Munchies in a BIG way. I say sparingly because when I smoke a lot it spaces me right out. It doesn't lock me down, but has me near to drooling over good music if I don't be careful, or unbalanced and sluggish or sloppy while walking around or doing things.
But consumed in moderation... ahhh... Very nice. Very mellowing for the brain, and uplifting to the spirit. It makes smiling easy and natural, almost unavoidable, and talk is fun. It calms the nerves and helps Love radiate through unhindered.
I can easily see me in my future, having a constant supply of this in my cabinet.
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That leaves my Doux Petit Crème Caramel, taken 83 days after sprouting.
Now you smell red berries. A fist full, squeezed between your hands and mixed with a half a cup of sweetened coffee. And an earthy smell.
I only smoke this right before going to bed. The reason I partake before going to bed is because of my back pains. The Easy Ryder does well here, as does the SAD and some other strains as well. But the CC is special.
I can't explain to you the joy I felt after smoking her again for the first time after about 3/4 of a year. The sweet taste of that first hit in itself brought on a whirlwind of memories and just a feeling of "remembrance". So hard to explain. I've described it as a homecoming. That's too simple though. The feeling had a touch of divinity to it.
When I lay down to sleep at night I don't just close my eyes and fall asleep. I connect with you and the rest of the Universe. I then thank You and the Universe and then fly away to dream. All other strains that I have smoked make this process to some degree more... difficult. They allow me to be easily distracted and thus, occasionally frustrated.
Not so with the Cream Caramel. This is my Shaman's Bud. It affects my emotions and senses by dulling them down while leaving awareness intact. Imagine darkness and safe, weightless warmth all around you. The warmth is billowing clouds of feathery cotton with kaleidoscopic waves of soft, glowing red, orange, yellow, green and blue colors. I guess that would be an insufficient impression, but along those lines. That's my starting point, after smoking Cream Caramel and laying down in bed to sleep at night.
Same here with the overindulgence part: too much Shamans Bud at bedtime and the next sound you hear is the alarm clock.
These nuggets are tighter and more colorful than the SAD. This one is the only one I've weighed. I got 34gr from her. Not bad at all for such a small plant. So the SAD was probably about the same weight and the ER probably about 28 - 30gr and the FA something less. That bit of info just for those who might be asking "What'd it weigh?" Sorry, weights don't matter to me. :dunno:
Thank you for following along with my antics and for being you, AFN! :hug:
And thanks for the votes in the December BOM!
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Much Love to you, my friends! :karma Cloud::karma Cloud::karma Cloud:
hope your winter pic's are what it should look like here, but instead it was 59 deg on christmas, bare ground,no snow no wonder my ph has changed on my wellwater. have a happy and safe new year and if your not going to grow.....just don't disappear
After that they just went nuts and now the wee twins are mad cuz they have to use the "little kids' area". LOL 
I would love to! But I don't think I'd ever finish since you'd have me laughing my ass off the whole time!
